Theorizing Awkwardness, with Style, in the Study of Religion: A Forum on Dana W. Logan’s Awkward Rituals (2022)
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The 2022 meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Denver featured a book panel on Dana W. Logan’s Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America (University of Chicago Press, 2022). This essay introduces a forum based on the panel, featuring four scholars representing diverse subfields in religious studies: Ian MacCormack, Charles McCrary, Constance Furey, and Marko Geslani. It argues that Awkward Rituals, though embedded in ritual studies and the historiography of American religion, is a generative theoretical text for many areas of inquiry in the wider study of religion: the disjunctures and incoherences in religions; the practical applications of a mind/body dualism; the uses of the personal experiences of the scholar; and the endurance of comparison as a method.
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Logan, Dana W. (2022). Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America. Class 200: New Studies in Religion Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Theorizing Awkwardness, with Style, in the Study of Religion: A Forum on Dana W. Logan’s Awkward Rituals (2022)
In: Method & Theory in the Study of ReligionSearch for other papers by Sonia Hazard in
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Abstract
The 2022 meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Denver featured a book panel on Dana W. Logan’s Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America (University of Chicago Press, 2022). This essay introduces a forum based on the panel, featuring four scholars representing diverse subfields in religious studies: Ian MacCormack, Charles McCrary, Constance Furey, and Marko Geslani. It argues that Awkward Rituals, though embedded in ritual studies and the historiography of American religion, is a generative theoretical text for many areas of inquiry in the wider study of religion: the disjunctures and incoherences in religions; the practical applications of a mind/body dualism; the uses of the personal experiences of the scholar; and the endurance of comparison as a method.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 24 | 24 | 10 |
| Full Text Views | 46 | 46 | 1 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 78 | 78 | 4 |